I watched it last night. I didn't find it nearly as nuanced and brilliant as his early stand-up. You can be non-PC and incredibly funny, but nothing is funny just because it's non-pc, unless you're trying to appeal to morons or bigots. His new shit just isn't funny. It's not cohesive, and seemed to just devolve into aimless ranting at certain points.
Yeah, hell I thought it was a big step down from the previous Netflix special. I tried watching it but couldn't make it through, after about the 5th time that he ran off fake laughing at his own joke it just got boring. He wasn't really saying anything jaw dropping to warrant that if he was going for shock factor, and his points often just boiled down to him wanting to say something that came off more like him trying to seem stupid than an actual joke. Which I figured he might have been working towards some elaborate long return punchline like his Cosby joke in the previous Netflix special, but I kinda doubted it since it wasn't terribly coherent so I decided not to stick with it to find out. Seemed like most of it was him playing to the audience trying to link to Chappelle Show stuff, and its like, just make your show like you apparently wanted to now instead of harping about it, he'd get basically complete freedom of what to do with modern platforms (including he'd be able to just sell it himself so he wouldn't have anyone to answer to). It was weird though because it reminded me of his act from the Nutty Professor, like it was something I expected more from a comic that hadn't really established themselves, and yet it seemed like everything was tied somehow to his Chappelle Show stuff, so it felt like it was highlighting him regressing as a comic.
There was also some really weird part in the trailer (you know the "live tile" video that Netflix autoplays when you have something highlighted or pushes as a banner?). I thought it was going to be part of a bit but it wasn't. It was when he was walking in the desert, it looks pretty normal at first, he's definitely been lifting weights, but then the camera pans and it looks like he's wearing a dress because of the long shirt or something like he has tiny legs compared to his upper body. It looked bizarre, but is only a moment as then the camera pans back more and he looks more normal.
Which I think that's really what the issue for me was. He was acting like he was trying to be "cool" and more serious, like he was better than the clown that he apparently thought Comedy Central (and frankly many of his fans wanted) was turning him into, but then he was doing shock comedy shit that you'd expect out of some younger comic (and much worse at it than his younger self) and him constantly running around fake laughing highlighted the disparity between how he seemed to be trying to present himself and how he was actually acting.
Which, there's plenty of comics that I enjoy plenty of their material but I don't like everything they do. I stopped watching the Hannibal Buress I tried watching after that one. It was just lacking to me too, like, really, that's the routines you go with for your specials? I get that they're not the big arena filling stuff like HBO and Comedy Central specials used to be, but you'd think they'd have prepared something better.